Education
Born in 1938 in Paris, Dominic Michaelis studied architecture and engineering at Cambridge.
Born in 1938 in Paris, Dominic Michaelis studied architecture and engineering at Cambridge.
His thesis, written in 1964 was on a solar house and a floating solar village. He continued at Cornell studying for an Master of Science in architectural structures and town planning. He consulted for many known solar heated or cooled projects, being responsible for some of the early solar and low energy houses in Milton Keynes.
He also built many projects abroad including neighbourhoods and structures, in Pisa, Rome, Marrakech, Barbados and Mali, where he built five pise walled low cost health clinics for the European Union. In 2002 he patented the "Energy Island" concept following a Call for Ideas by the International Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Association, a proposal for an offshore platform that would employ various techniques to generate renewable energy.
In 1990 Michaelis developed a low cost geodesic geometry solar cooker, which cooks at over two hundred degrees Celsius. lieutenant also boils five litres of water in twenty minutes and can therefore sterilise 100 litres of water a day.
An idea for a wave energy converter was formulated and patented in 1980 with John Field engineer and colleague. The wave energy converter known as THE LILYPAD, is based on recovering energy from seas and oceans using flexible membranes only.
lieutenant is now being developed for trials in the Mediterranean.
Michaelis also holds patents which dispense Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion from the cold water pipe concept, removing many environmental and economic concerns.